CAS temporarily suspends Chelsea’s transfer ban

Nov 6, 12:10 pm EST

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)—The Court of Arbitration for Sport has suspended Chelsea’s transfer ban until it can reach a final decision on the club’s appeal.

The court’s decision Friday almost certainly frees Chelsea to acquire players when the international transfer market reopens in January.

FIFA had banned the Premier League club from signing players for the next two transfer windows for breaking rules in acquiring French teenager Gael Kakuta from Lens in 2007. Chelsea appealed to CAS against the FIFA ruling that cut the London club out of the market until January 2011.

CAS did not say when it expected to reach a final decision. It could take several weeks to arrange an appeal hearing and several more for the panel of arbitrators to reach a verdict.

Updated Nov 6, 12:10 pm EST
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  1. Rosman
    67. Posted by Rosman Sun Nov 8 3:10am EST

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    chelsea will be champion
  2. Jhonny
    66. Posted by Jhonny Sat Nov 7 4:30pm EST

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    Chel.....................please beat the crap out of them man.u

    i believe that platini really hates the english clubs, after all he's french right?
  3. <i>hossyjay</i>
    65. Posted by hossyjay Sat Nov 7 11:03am EST

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    all the premiership fan side that are happy over our ban must go to hell(manu fan, arsenal) becouse a friday that is going to be is known from wednesday, lifting the ban till further notice, is a sign of victory over the case. we are not relenting in our title race inspite all the obstacles that confront our way. michel platini your journy is almost over. hi to all chelsea fans. UP CHELSEA PRIDE OF LONDON. Hosea jacob (Nigeria Abuja airport)
  4. <i>krazor21</i>
    64. Posted by krazor21 Sat Nov 7 8:45am EST

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    chelsea should be banned from playing any matches for the next two seasons
  5. Robert
    63. Posted by Robert Sat Nov 7 5:52am EST

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    no.49 & no.50 . . . . . . . . well said . . .
  6. Brandon
    62. Posted by Brandon Sat Nov 7 5:09am EST

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    Sweet
  7. Michael V
    61. Posted by Michael V Fri Nov 6 4:01pm EST

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    Kashima Antlers babe!
  8. elton
    60. Posted by elton Wed Sep 9 6:08am EDT

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    michel platini should resign or fired. he is prejudiced against all the english clubs. he has no professionalism and self courage. he uses his position to take out his hate on english clubs. thats not the way fifa should set the example for the world. get rid of michel platini.
  9. Volak
    59. Posted by Volak Wed Sep 9 3:41am EDT

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    Platini personally hates Chelsea and tries to use his power to unfairly subjugate it. Period.
  10. Roxy
    58. Posted by Roxy Tue Sep 8 1:48pm EDT

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    All that is happenning at the moment is to make Chelsea loose focus..................go Chelsea go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
  11. Maxx92
    57. Posted by Maxx92 Tue Sep 8 1:41pm EDT

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    This is payback for being d***s to Mutu. But now every small club that's ever lost a player is going to file with Fifa out of jealousy
  12. <i>rupak_diagno</i>
    56. Posted by rupak_diagno Tue Sep 8 12:20pm EDT

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    all the rival club of chelsea shows their fear factor . fifa always jealous the british club . but as a fan we know chelsea overcome all the barrier.
    rup durgapur -westbengal -india
  13. Lanre
    55. Posted by Lanre Tue Sep 8 11:10am EDT

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    this is going to be hard pls let chelsea fc management do something about this resent development.
  14. NonaB
    54. Posted by NonaB Mon Sep 7 11:31am EDT

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    It will be interesting to see if any of the players Chelsea has signed to these "long term contracts" is induced by another team to break their contract and thus Chelsea finds itself as the injured party the next time.
  15. Bunney B
    53. Posted by Bunney B Sat Sep 5 9:01am EDT

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    being a chelsea fan it hurts to see what FIFA has done to us. but we will endure and try our best to win whatever there is to win CHELSEA CHELSEA for ever
  16. Brian M
    52. Posted by Brian M Sat Sep 5 2:58am EDT

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    Next stop will be United - I hope.

    Bloody Manc scum ... crawl back to your swamp in the suburbs of Manchester ...
  17. Ephraim
    51. Posted by Ephraim Sat Sep 5 2:40am EDT

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    The punishment is equal to the crime. What ever, the premier league is going to the blues. Punishment or no punishment, that won't stop them from grapping this season's title
  18. Noah
    50. Posted by Noah Sat Sep 5 1:01am EDT

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    dude popeye.... im just saying based on what n s said, is tht italy and spain cant offer a contract to a player until he is 18 and older, and if so how did inter sign balotelli to a contract, and same with pato? he came to ac when he was like 17. but anyways i no spain has tht rule, i just dont think italy does based on those signings but i could be wrong...... lol... why call me a douche? i was just asking him then how did ac and inter sign them.... up the gunners!!!!!! chelski kind of deserve their banning since they did the same with cashley a few years back...no offence....
  19. Derek J
    49. Posted by Derek J Fri Sep 4 8:26pm EDT

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    the united fans always amuse me. "build a team fair and square? by spending the seocnd largest amount of money in the world to buy championships? how is that fair to the lower market clubs.

    and wishing injury upon chelsea players is just cruel and poor class.

    i find it to be a fitting punishment. barring them from competition would be overkill and would never stick as it would damage the franchise as well as the sport.

    in conclusion, go gunners
  20. M T
    48. Posted by M T Fri Sep 4 6:37pm EDT

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    FIFA, if only you would ban Chelsea to compete in ANY leagues, domestic and international, that'll teach em a lesson. That transfer ban is just for show...what a joke!

    Hopefully other teams will break some Chelsea legs so they will have to play amateurs from their youth when all the others are in the hospital. That's how the mob does it, fits Chelsea right with a mobster as their owner...HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

    Chelsea, go *bleep* yourself...ha ha ha!
  21. PatrickT
    47. Posted by PatrickT Fri Sep 4 5:27pm EDT

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    Williams - Brookline (Skyline) at 7:45 Sunday AM but we have a permit issue - will post once it is resolved
  22. <i>jimnette2003</i>
    46. Posted by jimnette2003 Fri Sep 4 5:03pm EDT

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    liverpool...liverpool...go go go go LIVERPOOL
  23. popeye10
    45. Posted by popeye10 Fri Sep 4 4:46pm EDT

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    @ BLANK: Let me do the honors.. both Pato and Balotelli were signed by the transfer of a sum of money in return for the player, something that takes place commonly on a regular basis among every single football club on planet earth. What Chelski and Manu did was wrong, because they got the players, without paying any sum of money to their former clubs... gosh, what a douche!
  24. SouthPhillyCliff
    44. Posted by SouthPhillyCliff Fri Sep 4 4:43pm EDT

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    Just Like Chelsea!!!......Always Cheating! forever a ManU wannabee
  25. Noah
    43. Posted by Noah Fri Sep 4 1:52pm EDT

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    N.S...... lol then how did pato and bollotelli get signed? by inter and ac milano?
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